Mental Health Month: Aluminum and Alzheimer's

There are studies that suggest people with Alzheimer’s
dementia have higher amounts of aluminum in their brain cells and in the blood
vessels near the brain.

However, this aluminum may not come have come from canned
foods and drinks….

Do we absorb aluminum
when we drink or eat products sold in cans?

Not much.

Pharmacists Jacqueline Barber and Gordon wrote, “Under
normal circumstances less than 1% of ingested aluminum is absorbed from the GI
tract1.” They continued to explain that 95% of what is absorbed is
then excreted by the kidneys, just like other waste products.

People with aluminum in their brains may have been exposed
to it through contaminated injections or IV infusions.

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